Author: kirstenmau
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Did I take my own advice? A mini-listen
Reflections on a week of “quality time” vs. “productive time” with my aging parents Recently, I shared Top 10 Tips from experts on how to spend more quality time than productive time when visiting your older parents. (Check it out!) I just got back from a visit to my parents and my husband asked, “Well,…
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Don't wait for panic-mode; tackle your historic photo archive in Zen-mode
My push to start organizing my historic family photos This weekend I was on a girls weekend and saw a friend I don’t get to see very often. For the last year or so she has been overwhelmed caring for aging parents; dealing with their housing challenges; mourning the loss of a parent; and moving…
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Whose Ashes are These?
Perhaps your parents also have yellow sticky notes all over their house. One day I am greeted with this message on the microwave: Ashes!!
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Your Guide to Saving Your Sanity While Helping Your Parents Age Successfully
Managing life with aging parents is a gift, and a challenge. This blog is here to help us laugh, cry and get support during this crazy time of life.
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Time for Twin Beds To Go!
I am an adult over 50 and have raised 2 adult daughters. And yet when I visit my parents, I sleep in one of two twin beds in a room that was never a kid’s room.
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The Wooden Ladder
One day, you see an everyday object in use and it strikes the fear of immediate and significant injury in you. I call this “The Wooden Ladder Episode.”
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Trash Talk!
I know from talking to so many of you that aging parents often develop a unique relationship with trash. Yep, the trash. Here’s my family’s “Trash Talk”
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Glass Animals
I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the 70’s we were part of a “glass animal craze.” Or maybe it was just us. I have no idea but we amassed quite a collection.
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Who Gets The China? 